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A film by this director inspired the title of a B-side to “Everything’s Gone Green” by New Order. As a child, this director tried to stage an opera in a toy marionette theatre, so he accepted a directing job on a TV adaptation of The Magic Flute. The last of four versions of the saraband (15[1])from J. S. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 2 in a film by this director plays as a woman boards a helicopter after stating “I have seen God.” Concert pianist Käbi Laretei was once married to this director, whose fictional visit to 50s Hollywood is the theme of a “radio musical” by (*) Sparks titled for his “seduction.” In a film by this director, a woman tries her best to play Chopin’s Prelude No. 2 in A Minor for her pianist mother. (-5[1])A film by this director inspired a musical for which Stephen Sondheim wrote “Send in the Clowns,” A Little Night Music. (10[1])For 10 points, a Scott Walker song titled for a film by what director of Autumn Sonata recounts, “this morning I played chess with Death, said the knight?” ■END■ (10[1])

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